FDA advisers this week will scrutinize what could become the first approved psychedelic drug.
MDMA, ecstasy's chemical name, targets multiple neurotransmitters in the brain and was found in Lykos studies to deliver "meaningful improvement" in PTSD symptoms that appears to be durable.PTSD is hard to treat, and it often involves combining medication like antidepressants with psychotherapy. That can make it difficult to assess how much benefit comes from the drug versus supervised counseling.
The document pointed to gaps in clinical trial data, adding that regulators couldn't entirely rely on anecdotal reports of illegal MDMA use to project risks from an approved treatment.to use psychedelics as a treatment, especially for veterans with PTSD, who have high drop-out rates for psychotherapy alone.
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